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Monday, October 14, 2002
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Tackling Breast Cancer on a Grid: "Venerable Oxford University unveils a landmark grid computing project aimed at pooling breast cancer research and improving methods for fighting the disease. By Michelle Delio." [Wired News]
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Space station seen as a stepping stone: "The world's major spacefaring nations believe multinational cooperation will continue to underpin the post-Cold War exploration of space, but most are eager to look beyond the international space station." [Google Technology News]
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Life on Venus may be microbe clouds: "Venus is considered the most inhospitable of planets, a barren inferno where surface temperatures approach 900 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmosphere is composed of metal-eating acids." [Google Technology News]
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Telescopes Find a Miniplanet at the Solar System's Edge: "Looking beyond the known planets of the Sun, out among an orbiting multitude of small icy bodies, astronomers have seen and measured a miniplanet, more than half the size of Pluto, that is the largest object in the solar system to be detected..." [Google Technology News]
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Cancer Vaccine Test Has Promising Result: "A cancer vaccine developed by Antigenics, a New York biotechnology company, virtually eliminated tumors in 2 of 28 patients with advanced melanoma, a deadly skin cancer." [Headlines From The NY Times]
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